Interests

Early Modern British literature, especially Sidney, Spenser, and
the dramatic literature of Shakespeare and his contemporaries;
feminist and cultural materialist theory and history

Works in Progress

The Gynecology of the Text: The Revisions of Sidneys Arcadia
and some of Their Progeny

A book-length study comparing the socio-symbolic conditions of
production of Shakespearean drama, c. 1580-1620.

Selected Publications

Literary Transvaluation: From Vergilian Epic to
Shakespearean Tragicomedy.Berkeley and Los Angeles, University
of California Press, 1984; reprint, chapter on "The Dido Episode,"
ed. Harold Bloom, New York and Philadelphia, Chelsea House (1987)
189-212.

"Mixed Gender, Mixed Genre in Shakespeare’s
As You Like It," Harvard English Studies, 14
(1986) 189-212; reprinted in Rosalind, ed. Harold
Bloom, New York and Philadelphia, Chelsea House (1992) 151-66 and
Gale Research Press (1998).

"The Chiefe Knot of All the Discourse: The Maternal Subtext
Tying Sidney’s’s Arcadia to
Shakespeare’s King Lear," Gloriana’s Face: Women,
Public and Private, in the English Renaissance, ed. Susan
Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies, London, Havester-Wheatsheaf Press
(1992) 105-28.